• In Germany’s elections,Angela Merkel won a diminished mandate for a fourth term as chancellor. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, became the first far-right party to enter parliament in more than 60 years.

The results suggest that populism — and anxieties over security and national identity — are far from dead in Europe. The shape and policies of a new governing coalition will involve weeks of painstaking negotiations.

•President Trump engaged in a war of words with the country’s largest sports leagues, making the N.F.L.’s game day one of the country’s most political events of the year.

Teams and owners presented a united front against Mr. Trump’s criticism over the role athletes play in the country’s race and social justice issues. Check here for the latest as Sunday games play out. Above, players knelt for the national anthem, the exact protest action Mr. Trump demanded players be fired for.

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His video captures a sprawling makeshift city in southern Bangladesh that now houses more than 400,000 Rohingya. For the families who made it this far, the first challenge is food and water.

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• The telling problems of an oil middleman: We took a close look at Unaoil, a go-to agent for multinationals operating in the biggest oil patches on earth. Above, its chief operating officer, Saman Ahsani.

It’s under investigation by Australia, Britain and the U.S. for possibly paying bribes in resource-rich countries, like Iraq and Libya, on behalf of a long list of companies.

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•The Pentagon introduced a $700 million program to destroy the Islamic State’s increasingly lethal fleet of drones. Above, one of the drones recovered in Iraq in January.

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• Iraqi Kurds appear to be holding to their plan to vote on independence today, despite enormous pressure from Iraq, regional neighbors, and the U.S. over fears of violence that could tear the country apart. [The New York Times]

• A “tremendous increase” in seismic activity has forced more than 35,000 people to flee Mount Agung, a Bali volcano that last erupted in 1963, killing 1,100 people. [Associated Press]

• Three U.N. soldiers were killed and five others seriously injured by an explosion in Mali. As of Aug. 31, the four-year peacekeeping mission had recorded 133 fatalities. [The New York Times]

• Two Vietnamese fishermen were killed and five arrested in what was described as an exchange of gunfire with the Philippine Navy in the South China Sea. [The Rappler]

Back Story

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If you’re looking to point fingers for one of the more giddily narcissistic trends of our time, look to the world’s smallest continent.

When the Oxford Dictionaries crowned “selfie” its Word of the Year (edging out “twerk”) a few years ago, its editors noted that the first known use of the term could be traced back to a post on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation forum that came 15 years ago this month.

There, a tipsy university-aged man posted a photo of his mouth, asking for medical advice for his lip, which he’d split open at a party.

“I had a hole about 1 cm long right through my bottom lip,” wrote “Hopey.” “And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.”

It was a very Australian turn of phrase.

A “barbecue” is a “barbie.” Your work colleague, Mr. Fitzgerald, is more often than not “Fitzy” at the pub.

Anna Wierzbicka, a linguistics professor at the Australian National University, has described the country’s love affair with such foreshortenings as reflective of cherished ideals, like “mateship,” humor, informality, and a dislike for “long words.”

Although, given that Hopey turned out to be a man named Nathan Hope, maybe a casual tone is more important than brevity.